Fancies Versus Fads: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fancies Versus Fads, credited to G. K. Chesterton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Fancies Versus Fads by G. K. Chesterton. Read in English by Larry Wilson; realisticspeakers; John; Linda Johnson; Campbell Schelp; Tomas Peter; Phil Chenevert; thestorygirl; Ciufi Galeazzi; MLC13; Justin S Barrett; tommack; Greg Giordano; Brian James; April6090; Kathleen Moore. A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they all imply that it is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander.” (From the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fancies Versus Fads
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 7:33:46

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Introduction — 7:32
2. 02 - The Romance of Rhyme — 39:23
3. 03 - Hamlet and the Psycho-Analyst — 32:07
4. 04 - The Meaning of Mock Turkey — 21:20
5. 05 - Shakespeare and the Legal Lady — 15:55
6. 06 - On Being an Old Bean — 10:46
7. 07 - The Fear of the Film — 10:52
8. 08 - Wings and the Housemaid — 10:43
9. 09 - The Slavery of Free Verse — 12:28
10. 10 - Prohibition and the Press — 10:32
11. 11 - The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett — 13:22
12. 12 - A Defense of Dramatic Unities — 10:47
13. 13 - The Boredom of Butterflies — 9:40
14. 14 - The Terror of a Toy — 8:42
15. 15 - False Theory and the Theatre — 11:24
16. 16 - The Secret Society of Mankind — 12:59
17. 17 - The Sentimentalism of Divorce — 11:00
18. 18 - Street Cars and Stretching the Law — 13:00
19. 19 - Why Reformers Go Wrong — 11:40
20. 20 - The Innocence of the Criminal — 12:30
21. 21 - The Prudery of the Feminists — 9:54
22. 22 - How Mad Laws are Made — 10:59
23. 23 - The Pagoda of Progress — 11:11
24. 24 - The Myth of the 'Mayflower' — 11:36

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